Only 1.75m Narrow Aisles: Zowell Man-Up VNA Forklift Delivers Dual Breakthrough in Storage Capacity and Picking Efficiency for Flavor Ingredient Warehouse

Project Overview

Recently, Zowell successfully delivered a man-up VNA turret forklift with a lifting height of 11.5 meters to a leading flavor ingredient manufacturer. The project enabled the customer to achieve a significant upgrade in both warehouse storage capacity and order picking efficiency, creating a highly efficient and clean logistics environment.

By introducing narrow aisle high-density racking and advanced VNA forklift technology, the customer successfully transformed their new warehouse into a modern, high-performance logistics center.

Customer Background

The customer specializes in the research, development, production, and sales of flavor and fragrance raw materials. Due to the high value and sensitive nature of these materials, the company places extremely strict requirements on warehouse cleanliness, handling accuracy, and picking efficiency.

With continuous business growth and increasing market demand, the customer decided to construct a new warehouse facility and upgrade its material handling equipment to strengthen its logistics capabilities and support future expansion.

Project Challenges

1. Insufficient Storage Capacity

The previous warehouse featured low building height combined with conventional racking and reach trucks, resulting in severely limited pallet positions. The existing storage capacity could no longer support the customer’s rapidly expanding business.

2. Low Order Picking Efficiency

In the traditional operation mode, storage and picking processes were separated. Reach trucks handled pallet stacking, while order picking relied heavily on manual searching and handling, leading to low efficiency and slow order response.

3. Strict Handling & Environmental Requirements

Flavor and fragrance raw materials are high-value and highly sensitive to contamination. This required material handling equipment to offer:

Zero emissions and clean operation

Exceptional driving stability

Precise control for safe and accurate handling

Zowell Solution

Leveraging extensive experience in narrow aisle high-density storage solutions, Zowell designed a customized warehouse layout and equipment configuration tailored to the customer’s operational requirements.

Optimized Warehouse Layout

12 rows of racking

Racking height: nearly 11 meters

Aisle width: only 1.75 meters

Racking depth: 35 meters

The deployed Zowell man-up VNA turret forklift features:

Maximum lifting height: 11.5 meters

Maximum load capacity: 1.6 tons

This combination enabled a dramatic increase in pallet positions, providing flexible storage capacity to support the customer’s business growth for years to come.

Integrated Stacking and Picking

The man-up VNA turret forklift integrates pallet stacking and order picking in a single machine, eliminating the inefficient process of switching between multiple equipment types.

Thanks to the synchronously elevating operator cabin and forks during travel, the forklift significantly reduces waiting time in narrow aisles, enabling fast, continuous operations and efficient response to high-frequency, fast-paced order demands.

Clean, Safe, and Highly Precise Operation

All Zowell forklifts are fully electric with zero exhaust emissions, ensuring a clean and pollution-free operating environment, perfectly meeting the stringent hygiene standards of the flavor ingredient industry.

Equipped with German integrated control handles, Zowell forklifts deliver high operational precision and smooth maneuverability, ensuring safe and accurate handling of high-value materials.

Project Results

Through the implementation of Zowell’s customized narrow aisle solution, the customer successfully achieved:

✅ Substantial increase in warehouse storage capacity

✅ Significant improvement in picking efficiency and order processing speed

✅ High-precision, contamination-free material handling

✅ Future-proof warehouse scalability

This project once again demonstrates Zowell’s strong technical capabilities and practical experience in providing high-density warehousing solutions for the food, flavor, and fragrance industries.